Saturday June 10

It seemed that I managed to adapt the hot weather, no excessive
sweating today any more. I was feeling already very comfortable,
no need to drink water all the time. My wife was still
complaining about the hot weather.

Today we went shopping to the center of Iloilo and we ate at
Jollibee. The trip from Amamaros to Iloilo was 26 kilometers
and it took about 45 minutes to travel with a jeepney (it cost
about 30 cents). One speciality we saw (and heard) in the Iloilo
center was a Aerosmith jeepney. The driver was playing only
music made by Aerosmith and he really played it loud. You could
hear the music even despite the traffic until the next block.

In Iloilo we met friends that lived before in Finland.

Iloilo: meeting friends

In the jeepney parking for the jeepneys going to Pototan
direction you could see wide collection of locally made
jeepneys. The drivers were having siesta in front of the
garages. Once they saw a western tourist coming with a camera
they started making some posing and joking.

Jeepney drivers

The trip back to Amamaros took more than an hours because the
driver had to refill the tank of his jeepney on the way. And in
Jaro we waited more passengers because the jeepney was still
half empty. It was not profitable for the driver to continue
with so few passenges so we simply waited until the jeepney
was almost full.

On the highway there was another jeepney going on the same way,
so the drivers decided to compete which one will be the first
one to arrive to the next big stopping place and get all the
passengers waiting there. Our jeepney was a little bit faster
so the driver managed to overtake the other was and the prize
was four new passengers.

In Amamaros I took some photographs of the yard and of the
dirty kitchen and the house inside.

In the evening Julia was sitting on the bench under the trees
and looking the traffic passing by on the highway. Manang burned
later in the evening some twigs and fallen leaves of the trees.

Before going to sleep I still took photos of the small lizards
running on the walls and the ceiling. I should say that mostly
these lizards did not run. Usually they just stayed still and
waited some insect to fly near enough to be caught. These
lizards were really fast (faster than your eye) to catch some
insects. The local name for these lizards was tiki. During the
day these harmless and useful mosquito killers were living
outside but in the evening they came inside the house. The
lizards were very shy and they stayed away from people and were
usually climbing on the walls and the ceiling. You did not need
to kill the mosquitos from the bedroom by spraying some
pesticide. It was enough to make sure that there was couple of
lizards in the bedroom and then just turn on the light in the
room and close the door. After about 30 minutes all the
mosquitos were eaten. The lizards were not totally silent.
They were communicating with each other making sound like
'chick-chick'.